By and large a collective body of ignorance, living under the shadow of an archaic monarchy and easily manipulated by the blatant social programming of the mainstream media.

An article published in May 2006 in "The Sun", a British tabloid newspaper, announced that the British public had voted one-hit wonder and reality-show charlatan Will Young the most popular British artist of all time. The Beatles, commonly regarded by music critics the world over as arguably the best band of all time, barely scraped into the top 40, making number 34 in the same survey.